I've been looking at the test itself. It's checking the get_caps method
on one of these GstTypeFindFactory objects.
> > > # Failed test 'The thing isa GStreamer::Caps'
> > > # at t/GstTypeFindFactory.t line 16.
> > > # The thing isn't defined
Upstream have already removed a test from this script for
->get_extensions() with a comment that they cannot guarantee the output
will not be NULL.
On my machine, I dumped the content of ->get_caps() for every element
from ->get_list() (not just the first), and there were 2 out of 164
which weren't returning a GStreamer::Caps object. I haven't tracked
these down further.
On some machines it might be possible that one of these gets put at the
start of the list, and the test will fail. It looks like the
registration will happen in the same order each time, but I don't know
what controls that ordering. I don't know why the build would succeed
for lucas on tmpfs, either. :)
Reading the gstreamer source (gsttypefind.c), it looks like both
extensions and capabilities are *optional* arguments to
gst_type_find_register.
So I reckon the right thing to do is to disable this test as well, and
tell upstream (who might well have more knowledge of this).
--
Tim Retout <tim at retout.co.uk>